I have a bunch of movieclips with instance name like "newYorkCity", "sanFrancisco", etc. How do I parse a string to go from "newYorkCity" to become "New York City". I think it is possible to do this. I was looking in the flash help int he section "Finding substrings and patterns in strings" but this section seems really confusing to me.
View 3 RepliesI'm creating a CMS(Content Management System) tool so that users can change text and the changes be reflected in a text window in flash . The text that the user enters in the CMS tool will be stored in the database.
In flash I want to parse the string that I get from the database and look for URL strings that start with http "http://www.someurl.com" and parse out that substring.
For example the string could be "Please vist my site at http://www.site.com". I would want to parse out the http://www.site.com
If I find this url string I want to pre-pend the a href tag <a> and append the closing </a> tag to the string so that this link will be clickable from the textfield.
Does flash have an object that deals with Regular Expressions? I've looked at the String object in flash but not sure how to achieve this task
I'm creating a CMS(Content Management System) tool so that users can change text and the changes be reflected in a text window in flash . The text that the user enters in the CMS tool will be stored in the database.In flash I want to parse the string that I get from the database and look for URL strings that start with http "URL..." and parse out that substring. For example the string could be "Please vist my site at URL...". I would want to parse out the URL...If I find this url string I want to pre-pend the a href tag <a> and append the closing </a> tag to the string so that this link will be clickable from the textfield. Does flash have an object that deals with Regular Expressions?
View 2 Repliesgood function for parsing a string in as3 to remove all characters that are not alphanumeric (and ideally being able to add a few more characters such as _ )
I want to use it to check user input before sending it to PHP (which checks it as well but I would like to have the user side ie flash check it first).
I am sure I could write it by creating an array of the characters I want it limited to and working through each character in the user input and removing those that don't match; but this seems slow and cumbersome.
Alternatively passing it to PHP and having that use its string functions to check then pass back to flash; but I would rather it done purely on the Flash side.
I'm wanting to make a small program that when people paste in some long text like below:
05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 4.
05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package acquired in amount of 16.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 2.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package acquired in amount of 11.
That I can have a button that will ad up the numbers on the right side
So the solution would be: 33
I am having trouble parsing a string to an array.The string is as EXACTLY as follows:[code]
View 2 RepliesIs there some way in flex to parse strings to date. I want it to support custom formats similar to 'dateformatter'. Using 'dateformatter' class we can parse date object in various string formats as specified by 'formatString property'. I want it other way round, from string to date. The parse method 'Date.parse(my_string)' does string parsing but for a very limited set of formats. Can't we have something similar to following, where user can specify his/her own formats.
someformatter.formatString = 'HH::MM::SS' ;
mydate = someformatter.formatTodate('23::56:34');
Will 'parseDateString' method of dateformatter be useul here?
I have a string that is similar to a path, but I have tried some regex patterns that are supposed to parse paths and they don't quite work.
Here's the string
f|MyApparel/Templates/Events/
I need the "name parts" between the slashes.
I tried (w+) but the array came back [0] = "f" and [1] = "f".
I tested the pattern on [URL] and it seems to work correctly.
Here's the AS code:
var pattern : RegExp = /(w+)/g;
var hierarchy : Array = pattern.exec(params.category_id);
params.name = hierarchy.pop() as String;
I want to do something like this:"3*4".replace(/([0-9]+)[*]([0-9]+)/g, String(Number("$1") * Number("$2")))And no, i don't want to do that, but something more complex.
View 2 RepliesRecently, whenever I open up the program I get an XML parse error in the output window that reads: *** XML Parsing Errors ***Line 4157: The name attribute was not found on the string element <string playername="" tiptext="Specifies that the gradient use the reflect sprea... Line 4164: The tipText attribute was not found on the string element <string playername="" ti`text="Lets the user drag the specified sprite." This is not specific to any .fla file, but seems to be related to Flash itself. The program seems to work fine otherwise. Can anyone shed some light on this?
View 1 RepliesI would like to make a map of my city
whey i click to that city color will change than
i would like to see city of place bigger in a new window
I have a html link that display the city of the person viewing the site. How can I display that information into a swf dynamic text field, using that html link?
So far I got this script half working because it display the information in the output window. How can I get it to display it on a dynamic text field?
var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success)
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I am using Flash CS4. This needs to be done in flash because it is going to be used for a bannerDoes anyone know the code for dynamically pulling up the city and state?So if a user was viewing the banner from San Diego Ca... the dynamic box would say San Diego Ca
View 5 RepliesI am trying to dynamically pull up the city and state all within the swf file.
So if a user goes to my site from San Diego, CA. There would be a dynamic box that says San Diego, CA.
We see this more and more in online banner advertsiments...How can we display the user's city based on his location?
View 6 RepliesI would like to make a flash banner which inserts City name depending on ip address of user viewing the banner!
View 3 RepliesI'm currently building a project where I have a map, the map has individual pieces (cities) where the user can rollover with the cursor on each city.To be able to do that, I saved each city as png with background transparency, however, when I import to flash and make it active, the city stays a png with the transparency but becomes a square, which means that when the user rollover the transparent square part activates it.What I need is to know how to use only the form of the city in flash.
View 9 RepliesI am trying to obtain strings from a xml file: I tried the following:
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("blog.xml");
var xml:XML; var rss:URLLoader = new URLLoader();rss.load(url);rss.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, readRss);
function readRss(e:Event):void{ xml = XML(rss.data); txt_field.text=xml.entry[1].author.name;
}
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i am new to AS 3. i came to know that lot of ways to parse the xml. i am not sure, what is the best way to parse xml. here with i have pasted my xml.
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So i have this chunk of XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<groups>
<group>
[code].....
how to parse XML very well !
my problem is simple, i have a php file that do XML, the XML is generated with the php code with the elements in my mySQL Base.
When i replace this line :
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("donneesFlash.xml"));
by
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("donneesFlash.php"));
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Because my URL Request is .php, so for flash i can't do new XML();
I'm still trying to wrap my head around XML and am having trouble getting images and text from the XML file into my Flash document.[code]...
View 8 RepliesI can load the xml, but I'm having trouble parsing it.
Code:
var myXML:XML;
var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
[code].....
I have an xml file like this[code]...
i need to be able to do is to add the first element of the text document to the <key></key> and the second element to <down></down> of the xml file .
how to Parse UTF-16 XML file and modify it (adding more tags or change some info) and write the updated info back to UTF-16 xml file again?
View 1 RepliesI am making a basic graphics program in Flex 3 and I am wondering how to parse data into drawings on the stage, but I'm just trying to figure out how it would work.
View 4 RepliesI'm rather new to Flash and AS3. I need to call a REST web service, passing it a location code and two arguments, and parse 3 nodes from the resulting XML.[code]...
View 1 Replieshow can I recursively analyze/modify XML in Flex / As3?
Let's say I have this XML:
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How can I find/change, let's say all 'font' tags that have 'size' attribute and multiply it by 2 (no matter where it is)?
So we have [URL] we need to get out from it protocol, ip/adress, port, actual url (robot10382.flv here) and actions (action=read here) how to parse all that into string vars in one reg exp?
View 2 RepliesI have a 3rd party programme which generates the xml file below, and it re-writes the xml file every time a new message is received by that 3rd party programme. What I'm trying to do is find a way to read in the relevant flashvars (if that's the right term) into a flash file (basically I want to read in messages 1 - 6), ignore the rest of the xml, display the messages and then re-load the xml about every 30 seconds (in case it's changed). I guess this is pretty much like a news reader of sorts, but I don't have any control over the structure of the xml file, so if someone could point me in the right sort of direction, then I'm happy to have a go at learning. I did try messing with a basic news reader flash file that I downloaded, but it didn't seem to like the xml - I guess because each message in the xml has its own number?[code]...
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